The existence of motorized tricycles- the three wheels were a very convenient resource to maintain stability and this is essential for carburaciones and burning of the period was not at that time and new to the local environment. News of these vehicles can be rewound until Saturday January 21, the eve of the second day of competitions at the velodrome opened a week before the presence of the President of the Nation and ministers; that day the daily El Tiempo announced that in the fourth and final race "... 40 km, first runners will be trained by the new tricycle kerosene newly introduced by the Recht and Lehmann house. .

With this new element of progress, the previous record run of luck (sic) being beaten "

Year 1909

Affiche TCA Motorcycles, naturally, they were not the main course; but both the "Circuito Buenos Aires" MCA as the "Circuito Mar del Plata" TCA contributed dramatically to detach them from the cycling field and associate them with motorcycling in general (which included very soon a new star: the "volación"). 1914 Since mid-year, news about the war in Europe -evolucionada of a nationalist attack in the Balkans was dismayed everyone in Argentina: except the Spanish, almost all immigration came from countries that sooner or later would be involved in this mess.

One consequence, the other known (and remembered in a famous letter tango) part was that soon some young, mostly committed to the Allied cause, crossed the ocean to fight. The issue included several local motorcyclists: Heriberto and Clarencio Coldwell, Alberto Trenit, Gerónimo de La Salle, Plácido Simoni, Gerardo Wauer Alkaine, among others; some died like Heriberto Coldwell-, others survived (and their faces acquired some remote expression), and some became heroes like the hitherto "chubby Paokaene" which he returned become captain of the French army and medal knight of the Legion of Honor in the chest, plus the French War Cross, the British Military Cross, the Belgian War Cross and 11 citations for heroic actions.

Year 1920

Announcements like this should fascinate. Everything was there, and just had to get on. Olimpio Gori knew, and also comprised the prestige of the brand it represented. But the ability to Dartiguelongue to sell Harleys had cut it a market half a dozen years before had been little more than itself.

Year 1924

On March 4, 1924 Pedro Perello, Joseph and Antonio Mas, Ceferino Bello and Antonio Carrau, all with sidecars, initiated a "raid" to Valparaiso on the coast of Chile, culminating with the return to Buenos Aires a month and a half later. Among the difficulties cited in the travel diary they highlighted the mud of the humid pampas and guadales sand below ( "buried up to the axles", "disarming engines face a hung from a fence to protect parts from dust brought canvas by wind"); -after between laughing anecdotes contained sucedidas- terror in the trans tunnel (one - way and permanent water seepage) before the light of a train approaching the distance ... it becomes a group of Chilean walk tens of meters brightening with a candle; between the exaggerations appeared the height reached ( "5000 meters") when Las Cuevas and consequent entrance to the tunnel is 3150. In any case, it was a very demanding adventure, and reserved for elected.

Year 1931

Juan Salatino in Europe, preparing for a day skills with a special Douglas for those procedures. The man had begun his career in the early ' 20s in cycling races for children under 16 years; to mid he alternated and bicycles (won in 1927 the Buenos Aires-Santa Fe in three stages) with motorcycles; recruited in 1929 for the speedway, he was taken to England , where it destacó- but an accident (a broken chain almost snatches foot) it had two months in a hospital there; back, he began to develop what over the next decade and a half would be the brightest in its history section.

Year 1937 In September 1937 he relived the Velox Moto Club Salta. It had been an effort of several enthusiasts, including Ubaldo Peirone, José Loisa, Angel Monteverde, Juan N. Caro (who formed the first commission directive). Juan R. Otero, José A. Badía, Mario Perot days, Ramon G. Perantoni, Salmoral Luis Alfredo Medina, Mario Rondoni, Enrique Yanez, Jordan Senes and others. A couple of months later encouraged jujeños first race against athletes, a result that was largely favorable to them. At year 's end they had 90 members, and by the end of 1938 about 130. The VMCS motorcyclist opened the Northwest chapter, then to just a reflection of what was happening in Tucuman.

Year 1942

Combiners, by definition, had no excuses: or punctures, cuts or streets or adverse weather, or health issues, or falls. By that time were motorcyclists par excellence quickly gained experience in this area, beyond the previous baggage that each portara to be recruited (and whose eventual exaggerations were detected instantly by the recruiter). Combiner be tantamount to bear a motociclístico master; It was a title against anyone confronted. And even be friends with a combiner was "plate" ...

Year 1949 In July 1948 it was announced that "... Jose Cruz will try to beat the South American record en route to Ezeiza with the model Ray Black, specially brought from England for this purpose" . Indeed, the first "Black Lightning" series (and model show at London 's Earls Court room late that year) was sent by Philip Vincent to CIMIC January 17 next, and should arrive in late February; the idea was to beat the record of Sigrand 1930 barely a formality with the machine- and produce a strong advertising impact throughout the area (something that the factory in serious financial difficulties, desperately needed). The project, however, began to stretch incomprehensibly in time ...

Year 1958

The 500cc championship speedway summer in Bahia Blanca 1957-8 -in the Club Villa Mitre had been won fittingly by Edgar Castilian (219 points) on Hector Santos Ilacqua (216, champion last year) and the Buenos Aires invited Salvador Sarda (205). Other participants were Hector Santín pilots, Ruben Rodriguez, Antonio and Eusebio Miranda, Julio Zecchi, Suarez, Spigardi. In parallel, the Automobile Club Bahía Blanca had once again play his 150cc championship until prolegómeno bulky and moved their careers on track moidgets- Club Liniers like the same city. That had ended with John Sgattoni (183 points) as the winner, followed by Carlos J. Martin (157), Gelindo Vucilli (153), Jorge Flamini (120), "Black Devil" (105), Guido pioni (101), Eduardo Muñoz, J. Rodolfo, OA Rocha, Julio Zecchi.

Year 1964

Half an hour of a race in which he had to leave was enough for the whole international atmosphere Benedict spoke of Hugo Caldarella. . In various media quoted the father of Hailwood accepting that Daytona in '64 "had never been so afraid defeat"

Year 1968

Meanwhile, in an unexpected corner of Argentina, a novelty had been brewing: motocross. After that initial period 1951-55 in which first proposed the "specialty field" (in a succession of settings where exploring attuned to local tastes the trial, regular elements were mixed and motocross), a He brokered long pause until its reappearance. The event had a father who was Jean Pierre van Raemdonck Mègrode, and perhaps unexpected scenario: Bariloche area. Raemdonck was Belgian national champion and trial in his country; during 1959 and part of 1960 there were bike ride with a friend across America, from Alaska to Patagonia; and fascinated by the landscapes of the Andes had returned to settle in Villa La Angostura in 1962 ... although nothing was willing to forget their times of success in Europe, and less still surrounded by so favorable scenarios. To stay he devoted himself to building wood bungalows, winter shelters and facilities for skiing, and parallel pirueteaba with his old NSU Geländemax by forests and hillsides, to suspicion, curiosity and interest (in that chronological order) the locals.

Year 1975

The ultimate dream of entrepreneurship RK: block six - speed rotary valve, water, rear exhaust. It was imagined by 1975 and armed a while later, but was never developed. It is for fantasy and nostalgia lascompetencias imagine in 125 against the race-European customer who brought in those years ...

Unrelated to this article...
Peter Henshaw in his Encyclopedia of the Motorcycle says when commenting
on an Australian built machine words to the effect that Australians are
not known for their prowess in the world of motorcycling. It seems that
in Argentina that was not quite true.